Monthly Archives: December 2009

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  10 InTENtions for 2010

  Posted on December 29, 2009 by Kat French in managing attention

  Well, kiddos, it’s that time of year again. Santa’s done his deal, so now it’s time for the grown-ups to start making our lists and checking them twice.  We won’t be making lists of naughty versus nice kids and appropriate/desirable gifts for the latter group.  Instead, because we’re bloggers, we’re making lists of predictions, goals [...]

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  Comfort and joy.

  Posted on December 21, 2009 by Kat French in managing attention, real life

  What kind of a year has 2009 been for you so far, reader friends? For me, it’s been like a trip to Tuscany.  A good friend of mine took a two-week trip to Italy this year with her husband.  It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime trips for them, and she was determined to do all [...]

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  A job in social media: fantasy versus reality

  Posted on December 17, 2009 by Kat French in managing attention, real life, relationships

  I work at an advertising agency as a social media manager. Last summer, I was having a conversation with a couple of other agency social media specialists (all of us belong to a super-secret cabal that meets in a cave high in the Himalayas).  One of them (David Griner) said the most common question he [...]

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  Since I gave up hope, I feel a lot better

  Posted on December 12, 2009 by Kat French in real life, relationships

  “Life unwinds like a cheap sweater But since I gave up hope, I feel a lot better And the truth gets blurred like a wet letter But since I gave up hope, I feel a lot better” – Steven Taylor, “Since I gave up hope I feel a lot better” I discovered Steve Taylor (not [...]

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  Because sometimes being special sucks.

  Posted on December 10, 2009 by Kat French in real life, story & craft

  Nobody likes risk. Nobody likes to find out that what they were working towards or hoping to happen just… doesn’t work out. What I’m realizing lately is that in life, it’s sometimes the element of risk that creates a meaningful experience in the first place.

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  The best laid plans of kats and men.

  Posted on December 6, 2009 by Kat French in managing attention, real life

  Plans are great. But plans aren’t fixed blueprints of how your life will go. They’re more like hypotheses of what direction your life could go in. If you find that a hypothesis doesn’t hold water, you need to be willing to let it go.

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